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College slaps income cap on parents
Parents with a joint income above £26,000 will be barred from sending their children to a state sixth-form college planned for the East End of London. The college will be one of the Government's flagship "free" schools, offering places to bright inner-city children to help them to get into elite universities.
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Children suffer in classrooms with poor acoustics
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Emily Dugan: A study has shown that high noise levels have an impact on memory, reading and numeracy skills
Why does LSE academic Satoshi Kanazawa seem to hate women and black people?
Friday, 20 May 2011
The ideas advanced by Social Darwinism and eugenics remain influential today in Japanese intellectual life and popular culture.
Forces children feel the strain
Friday, 20 May 2011
Richard Garner: Armed services children are struggling to fulfil their potential in school and many suffer emotionally when a parent is sent to a trouble spot, inspectors have warned.
Academic at LSE in race row
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Student leaders have demanded the sacking of an academic over an article in which he said black women were less attractive than other races.
Graduates more hopeful about their job chances
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Richard Garner: Students about to leave Britain's universities are as optimistic about their job prospects as they have been at any time in the past decade, according to research published today.
University entry system attacked
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
David Willetts today hit out at the university entry system for awarding points to "pony care" and music courses, but not to apprenticeships.
The trouble with free school meals
Monday, 16 May 2011
Peter Stanford: Free school meals are no longer a stigma, but the system is outdated.
Universities slam Willetts' 'cut-price' degrees scheme
Friday, 13 May 2011
Sarah Morrison: Higher education officials fear that students may hold off from accepting places at universities in anticipation of a degree 'fire-sale'.
The great university clearance sale
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Richard Garner and Oliver Wright: Tuition fee bargains await students who seek last-minute places, says minister.
Tories act to quell row over university places
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
The Prime Minister was forced to deny yesterday that the Government had any plans to allow wealthy students to buy places at the country's most elite universities, following a proposal floated by the Universities minister.
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